ArtistShare, founded by Brian Camelio, is a platform that connects creative artists with fans in order to share the creative process and fund the creation of new artistic works. ArtistShare created the Internet's first fan funding platform.

The Cleveland Arts Prize identifies, selects and publicly honors accomplished Northeast Ohio artists and organizations and individuals who have contributed to the community’s participation in the arts.

Creative Capital is a New York based non-profit dedicated to supporting individual artists in pursuit of innovation. It is a national nonprofit organization that provides integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in all disciplines. Their approach combines funding, counsel and career development services to enable a project's success and foster sustainable practices for our grantees.

Feed The Muse is a simple and safe way for fans, friends and family to support your creative ideas online. We supply you with all the tools you need to effectively reach out to your community and raise funds to accomplish your next project. YES, you can raise money if you’re a band, musician, artist, writer or filmmaker, and YES, you can also raise money if you’re a teacher trying to impact your community.

FirstGiving is dedicated to one purpose: empowering passionate nonprofit supporters to raise more money than they ever thought possible for the causes they care about. They partner with nonprofit organizations to allow them to plan, execute, and measure successful online fundraising campaigns and charity fundraising events with fundraising software.

IndieGoGo is a crowdfunding service. Originally for film projects, the platform provides artists and creative project leaders the tools for project funding, recruiting, and promotion, while enabling the audience to discover, connect fund projects directly.

KickStarter is a crowdfunding service focused on creative ideas and ambitious endeavors. Artists, filmmakers, musicians, designers, writers, illustrators, explorers, curators, performers, and others bring their projects, events, and dreams to life. Kickstarter is powered by a unique all-or-nothing funding method where projects must be fully-funded or no money changes hands.

NoteWorthy Credit Union's mission is to serve the arts and entertainment community. Noteworthy provides many types of loans but specializes in providing loans for musical instruments. ATMs are located in Cleveland: in the Tower Press Building on 1900 Superior Avenue, Severance Hall and the Beachland Ballroom on Waterloo Road.

Patronage is not a new concept, Patreon is a new way to access and cultivate it. The platform is an online crowdfunding software that allows individuals to support you as a creator. No prizes, projects or gimmicks needed. Crowdfunding does work best, however when you have an existing network of friends and fans who are willing to invest in you.

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. was established in 1985 for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to individual visual artists of established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one of the leading abstract expressionist painters and the widow of Jackson Pollock.

The Puffin Foundation Ltd. has sought to open the doors of artistic expression by providing grants to artists and art organizations who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their race, gender, or social philosophy.

SellaBand is a crowdfunding service, a music website set up to allow music ensemble bands to raise the money to record a professional album. SellaBand is based in Munich and Berlin, the creative capital of Europe. Since its launch in August 2006, SellaBand has coordinated recording sessions for more than 80 artists or acts who had their albums funded by their fans. With SellaBand, artists retain complete ownership of the works created and have the flexibility to determine which incentives they will offer their fans who fund them. SellaBand’s fan funding engine also allows artists the freedom to enter into deals with any label, management company, or publisher and there are no advances to pay back.